User talk:Shanak

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Plattform
Hi Shanak

This article was doubleplus marketing-speak. Passages like "All of these service offerings allow PlattForm to deliver results-driven direct-response marketing" have no place in an encyclopedia, especially not a not-for-profit free encyclopedia funded by charitable donations. Many people who edit here consider advertising of this sort to be the same as stealing from a charity.

Additionally, the article lacked reliable, non-trivial third-party sources that would have confirmed the notability of the subject. Whilst it was not deleted for this, such sources would have helped reduce the overall cheap-and-tacky advertising feel the article had.

Hope this helps.  REDVERS ↔ SЯEVDEЯ 19:10, 20 April 2007 (UTC)